Post all bugs here

[Grills74]

I played the table Marvel’s The Avengers 1 ball challenge and got stuck in a loop scoring 2,359,678,727 and had to eventually exit the game because even if I lost the balls on purpose they kept coming back. But now when I got to the 1 ball challenge even though it’s maxed out my score shows as 760,576!!

[Harest]

@Deep : If it was an answer to my post just above, i was of course talking about an issue when we don't have yet the choice to either start the multiball or wait for more gods. There's nothing in the middle of the screen, we see the time counter decreasing top left and we can do nothing.
I'll try to see if it happens when it's the 2nd god or not, in which case it'd be a display issue of the choice during the snake event (and possibly any event).
Edit : Nope it occurs everytime first or second god. If it's the second the choice is displayed but after the ~10s delay.

@Hajdu : Nice to see an official answer there. And i'll from now on post in the forum you pointed out instead. The Switch subforum is missing btw.

[deep]

If you shoot the ball into the left sinkhole (GODS) just hit the launch button when the dot matrix prompts you to choose between collect more gods or start multiball.

[hajdu]

Hey Guys,
thank you for the reports, we try to process them as fast as we can!
Until then, if you think use this new forum we created for you:

https://forum.zenstudios.com/forumdisplay.php?60-Troubleshooting-Guide

In here you can post bugs separately from other platforms and it may ease our job too!
Have a nice weekend!

[Harest]

PC (Steam) / Son of Zeus : During the Snake event, if a God rallies you you'll lose 10 seconds in the event. It seems like the game doesn't know what to do, your ball is stuck somewhere and the time flies without you can do anything except waiting.
It may even be the case during others events, i'll try to see that and report back.

[janduin68]

PS4 / Son of Zeus:
During multiball (I think it was Brawler multiball) one of the balls got stuck inside the right flipper. After the multiball ended the ball got unstuck by itself and I could continue the game.

[L0cky]

Nintendo Switch :

Family guy: Once in a while ball sometimes gets stuck / keeps hanging at the upper right flipper every time it tries passes the lane.
Only method to fix this is to turn off the switch, resestting or restarting the game doesnt seem to work.
very annoying bug that makes it impossible to finish all objectives on the table.

[SiggR22]

El Dorado Skillshot: FX3/PS4 and probably other platforms
Oh my, this is completely messed up...The time window is already too short (the red snakes blink only 8 times), so one must VOLLEY the ball right after a full-power launch, e.g. hitting the ball right when reaching the skeleton's nose. This is certainly not how it's supposed to work, as hitting BEHIND the flipper and then shooting was the original skillshot. I could still accept that: It just takes *extreme* skill, or makes slo-mo mandatory.
But here comes the real bug, where any amount of skill won't help anymore: You can only skillshoot on your first ball, as the red snakes for the next Skillshot will already start blinking when your current ball is lost, while counting up bonus. By the time your next ball is ready to launch, it's way too late! Yes that's right, it's absolutely ridiculous. The only way to get the skillshot chance is to TILT your previous ball! Dear Zen team, i love your game to bits, but tables should really be more thoroughly playtested. It's a mystery to me how this remained undetected... please fix.

[SchecterNL]

Pinball FX3 on Nintendo Switch:

Problems so far: Sorcerers Lair : * Ball sometimes get out of bounds in the upper right corner, resulting in apprearing in the bottom left drain lane.
* Extreme dithering on some points on the table, left top flipper ( extra ball lane ) for instance, but also the water bubble leveler in
very low in resolution.
* Camera views reset after being in special mode , for instance the spider sub game. The table revert to viewmode 1 after this mode.
* Stuttering horizontal scrolling dot matrix graphics, in many occasions the graphica are very hard to follow, like frames of
animation are skipping.
* Undocked portable handheld mode: The framerateis FAR to low compared to docked mode, I do not think it is even 30 fps, more
like ~15 - ~20 frames most of the time.
Hopefully the developers can fis some of these problems, for me personally the WiiU versionof Zen , is more of a pleasure to play.

Thank you for making this topic!

[steven120566]

What is with the perpetual freezing up on the menu screens on XBOX one?? I thought it might be my console, until am FX 3 player I work with reports the same thing. And for both of us, no other apps or games freeze up.

FX3 is still bug ridden, freezing on the menu screens is a serious problem and actually ruins the game.

[SiggR22]

FX3/ PS4

PlayStation Store (EU): Yes it's Sony's property but Star Wars pinball (EmpireStrikesBack, CloneWars, BobaFett) should be 50% off like the other Star Wars packs.

Son of Zeus: HERO rollover lanes arn't rolling over (table guide states they should).

Adventure Land: End of ball bonus multiplier applies but doesn't multiply. Probably known already, hence the current tournament doesn't involve it.

Sorcerer's Lair: During multiballs, the orbit doesn't count completed shots while another (saved) ball is being launched.

[Harest]

Cross-platform tournaments (Steam / Switch): Switch players not showing up in leaderboard for Steam players (but Switch players can see everyone, regardless of platform).

Same here, we did a small tournament and someone playing on a Switch was able to see our scores but we couldn't see his on our Steam version. A player was on Xbox and it worked fine, we saw his score.

Another bug, on a table (Adventure Lands on Steam) : The vertigo mode will always highlight the same light dots bottom left. I assume it should be random each turn.

[mountainmaster]

Yeah it seems to be an almost daily occurrence for me. I'm currently having to uninstall and redownload everything yet again as I type this because it happened again. On top of most of my tables not importing and support not replying to my posts here or my email this has been a complete shambles.

This constant crashing to the desktop is annoying. Maybe the Windows error log will help Zenstudios to fix it:

Unable to start a DCOM Server: ZenStudios.24185CFAC4A6_1.0.8.2_x86__sqz2yzgfp6bz4 !App as Unavailable/Unavailable. The error:
"317"
Happened while starting this command:
"C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\ZenStudios.24185CFAC4A6_1.0.8.2_ x86__sqz2yzgfp6bz4\PinballFX3_W10.exe" -ServerName:App.AppXpavz38ygsdwn850ap6b0ttaw4k2qnqf 5.mca

I googled for this error and apparently it has something to do with the latest fall update and using a local account to sign into Windows.

Edit: Well, here is another temporary workaround... No need to re-install Pinball FX3. Just install any free small game from the Microsoft store and Pinball FX3 will start up without crashing. This even works if you uninstall the free game immediately after downloading it.

[bosstime]

during a game of Skyrim i was in the inventory and normally the game should pause but all of a sudden it restarted and i lost my ball while being in the inventory.

[TV_Junkie]

Nine Zeros achievement hasn't unlocked for me even though I've met the requirements. (I did the math and added up my highest score on each table.)

Quick Play always wants me to play X-Men, telling me I played it "a long time ago," even if it's the most recent table I've played.

(Xbox One)